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Quote by Samuel Johnson
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Stephen Leacock

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we cant find. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. – Julius Caesar

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